Speedbump
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I like what you said Gary. The only problem I have with trying to filter well water when it has surface water getting into it is:
In my area, there are farms all over the place. You know that, you've been here. With a well that is only 10 to 20 feet deep or with that water running down beside casing that was put in loosly with not enough (or no) grout into a good clean aquifer has all kinds of bug killers, herbicides, fertilizer and who knows what else in it. Water softeners, iron filters, ph correction filters or any other kind of filters won't even try to remove these chemicals. I am not nearly as worried about bacteria as I am the chemicals. Bacteria for the most part might give you a bad case of Montazumas revenge, but the chemicals are forever. When I see a low PH in my area here in Florida, I know it's surface water. Almost 100% of the time that's where the low PH water comes from.
When my own well went bad a few years back. We started seeing blueing in the shower. The water started tasting nasty. I checked the PH and it was 5.5 instead of in the mid to high 7's. The casing we found out later was broken at 42 feet. Surface water was pouring into the well at that point and we had no deep water anymore. So I drilled a new well and plugged the old one.
In my area, there are farms all over the place. You know that, you've been here. With a well that is only 10 to 20 feet deep or with that water running down beside casing that was put in loosly with not enough (or no) grout into a good clean aquifer has all kinds of bug killers, herbicides, fertilizer and who knows what else in it. Water softeners, iron filters, ph correction filters or any other kind of filters won't even try to remove these chemicals. I am not nearly as worried about bacteria as I am the chemicals. Bacteria for the most part might give you a bad case of Montazumas revenge, but the chemicals are forever. When I see a low PH in my area here in Florida, I know it's surface water. Almost 100% of the time that's where the low PH water comes from.
When my own well went bad a few years back. We started seeing blueing in the shower. The water started tasting nasty. I checked the PH and it was 5.5 instead of in the mid to high 7's. The casing we found out later was broken at 42 feet. Surface water was pouring into the well at that point and we had no deep water anymore. So I drilled a new well and plugged the old one.